The final draft will include all of the following, in the following order:
a. a title page with your paper’s title, student name, date, course name and
number. This page must also include your declared major (e.g., B.A. in Biology);
b. an abstract page with a complete abstract, and a signed notation at the
bottom of this page noting that the Mercer Honor Code has been observed;
c. 5-7 pages of text;
d. a reference page(s) (properly formatted–see below);
e. photocopies or printouts of the actual first page (i.e., that includes title
and abstract) of every article cited, taken as a representation of the actual
article you possess in its entirety;
f. both copies of peer-edited rough drafts with their completed rubrics;
g. a copy of the term paper grade sheet.
Additional requirements:
• Photocopies must be from the relevant published article. Pages of titles and
abstracts printed from Galileo or other literature search engines are not
acceptable.
• Do not add a running header (or footer) of your name or paper title on each page.
• Number each page except the title page, i.e., there is no page number on the title
page, the abstract page is page 2, and other pages (including reference pages)
are numbered consecutively after that. In Microsoft Word this can be set by going
to Insert ® Page Numbers, and then unchecking the box “Show number on
first page”. Page numbers should be centered at the bottom of each page.
6. Your paper should follow the reference format of the Journal of Experimental
Biology. Instructions that the editors for this journal have provided to authors is given
below, and are published in full at:
http://jeb.biologists.org/site/author/manuscript_preparation.xhtml#references.
3.3.3. References
3.3.3.1. References in text
References in the text should be cited using the Harvard (name, date) referencing system.
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Each reference cited in the text (including those cited in supplementary information) must
be listed in the Reference list and vice versa: please check these carefully.
Literature citations in text are as follows.
• One author – (Jones, 1995) or (Jones, 1995; Smith, 1996).
• Two authors – (Jones and Kane, 1994) or (Jones and Kane, 1994; Smith, 1996).
• More than two authors – (Jones et al., 1995) or (Jones et al., 1995a,b; Smith et
al., 1994, 1995).
• Manuscripts accepted for publication but not yet published: list in Reference list
and cite as (Jones et al., in press).
• Manuscripts posted on preprint servers but not yet published: list in Reference list
and cite as (Smith et al., 2016 preprint).
• Citation of unpublished work: we discourage citation of unpublished data; if it
is necessary, use the format (S. P. Jones, unpublished observations/data).
Unpublished data cannot be included in the Reference list.
• PhD theses: cite in the text but do not list in the Reference list; use the format
(Arthur R. Goode, Title of thesis, PhD thesis, Institute, Year).
• Website URLs: cite in the text but do not list in the Reference list; provide the
URL and, if the website is frequently updated, the date that the site was accessed.
• Personal communications (i.e. the unpublished observations of other
scientists): when a person who is not an author on the paper is the source of
unpublished data, those data should be cited as a personal communication using
the format (full name, institution, personal communication). Personal
communications should not be cited in the Reference list and will only be
published when substantiated by written permission (e.g. email) from the scientist
cited.
• Dataset: we recommend that all publicly available datasets are fully referenced in
the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a DOI.
Include author surnames in the text citation, e.g. (Jones and Jane, 1994).
3.3.3.2. Reference List
References are listed in alphabetical order according to surname and initials of first
author.
• Use the following style:
Journal
Rivera, A. R. V., Wyneken, J. and Blob, R. W. (2011). Forelimb kinematics and
motor patterns of swimming loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): are motor
patterns conserved in the evolution of new locomotor strategies? J. Exp. Biol. 214,
3314-3323.
Book
Hochachka, P. W. and Somero, G. N. (2002). Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism
and Process in Physiological Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Book chapter
Feller, G. (2008). Enzyme function at low temperatures in psychrophiles. In Protein
Adaptation in Extremophiles (ed. K. S. Siddiqui and T. Thomas), pp. 35-69. New
York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Preprint server
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Baillie-Johnson, P., van den Brink, S. C., Balayo, T., Turner, D. A. and Martinez
Arias, A. (2014). Generation of aggregates of mouse ES cells that show symmetry
breaking, polarisation and emergent collective behaviour in vitro. bioRxiv
doi:10.1101/005215.
Dataset with persistent identifier
Zheng, L.-Y., Guo, X.-S., He, B., Sun, L.-J., Peng, Y. and Dong, S.-S. (2011).
Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). GigaScience
Database. http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100012.
Kingsolver, J. G., Hoekstra, H. E., Hoekstra, J. M., Berrigan, D., Vignieri, S. N.,
Hill, C. E., Hoang, A., Gibert, P. and Beerli, P. (2001). Data from: The strength of
phenotypic selection in natural populations. Dryad Digital Repository.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.166.
• If there are more than 10 authors, use ‘et al.’ after the 10th author.
• Within a group of papers with the same first author, list single author papers first,
then papers with two authors, then et al. papers. If more than one reference exists for
each type, arrange in date order. Use a and b for papers published in the same year.
• ‘In press’ citations must have been accepted for publication and the name of the
journal or publisher included.